We talk too much about Israel, Iran and co. The PRC's HPish-ness deserves more attention.
If I remember correctly, there are only a couple of people here that will play for the side of the bad guys, and they aren't really all that into it. For various reasons a ton of people like to argue for the bad guy's side in those other threads.
So we should not only blame China, some of the other countries also have some idiotic claims, through the Chinese claims are the most arrogant and least legit ones.
I personal think that Phillipines, Vietnam, Malaysia Indonesia and Brunei, should met and agree on the border with each other, and create a common front against the Chinese.
Indeed. I think some of that has already been accomplished, but yeah, they really should all be on the same page when the sh**t hits the fan. Despite a serious lack of air assets, the Philippines will be alright because the US will step in if needed (we have a mutual defense treaty). Our ties with Vietnam grow closer by the day as well.
The PRC are driving straight into a brick wall with this, it won't end well for them if they push this....unless they think America won't step in or they think they can defeat the USN and USAF, which I really can't believe they think that. Of course they believed an Onion article yesterday so who knows.
